Kendall Abbas

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William Osler, often called the father of modern medicine, famously advised his students: “Just listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.” A century later, clinicians and health system leaders started tuning out the patient’s voice, turning instead to electronic health records and …

Ubisoft did its homework<p>A scholar who studied ancient Egypt during the reign of Cleopatra VII — the setting of <i>Assassin’s Creed Origins</i> — decoded hieroglyphs used in some frames and screenshots promoting the game and, whaddaya know, found that Ubisoft designers really did their homework. There’s a …

It’s designed as an unobtrusive way to monitor the health of elderly relatives.<p>From across a room, a tiny box beaming out low-power radar can tell how fast your heart is beating. The technology–initially developed as a concept at NASA to locate victims in a disaster–is coming to market as a monitor …

Once called Lead to Fire, it’s a novel controller-focused strategy game<p><i>Tooth and Tail</i>, the real-time strategy game from the developers of <i>Monaco</i>, finally has a release date. The “one button” RTS will launch on September 12 on PlayStation 4 and Windows PC.<p>The small team at Pocketwatch Games has been …

From April to June, tech's biggest companies all held their annual mega-events, laying out their grand visions for the next 12 months or so.<p>Facebook kicked it off in late April with its F8 conference, followed by Microsoft Build, then the Google I/O conference, and Apple's Worldwide Developers …

The science of prosthetics has been advancing by leaps and bounds over the last few years, and research into soft robotics has been especially complementary. The same techniques that go into making a robot arm that flexes and turns like a real one can go into making more complex, subtle organs — …

One day we may embed information in our own bodies<p>Scientists have inserted a GIF into the DNA of living bacteria, bringing us one step closer to one day embedding information in our own skin.<p>Using DNA to store data isn’t new, but until now the data was stored in synthetic — not living — DNA. …